Our bodies and our minds are fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping.
BOB BROWNBehind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world’s future.
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?
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I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.
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In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
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The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
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The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .
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There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
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I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God – by which I mean accepting all that I don’t know.
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